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benjamin mays
became president of morehouse college and was a spirital mentor of Martin luther King Jr. -
3 governors contorvery
in the year the governor Eugene talmadge died right beofre his inauguration and the georgia genral assembly chose that his son herman would take his spot in office but the georgia constition said that the lieutenant governor would take his spot in office. -
brown v board of education
was a fight about segragtion in school saying it was unconstitutional, and soon later ended legal segregation in public schools -
state flag
the first flag was changed to show their resistance to civil rights then was again because the last one hurt georgia's economy. -
formation of SNCC and the woolworths lunch counter
student non-violent coordinating committe was formed for young African amreicans to have a voice in civil right movement. woolworths lunch conter when some africa amreican college students have politely asked for service but was denied and they remained in their seats to challenge racial inequality. -
admission of charlayne hunter and hamilton holmes to UGA
they both applied to uga and were rejected due to space reason so they reapplied to it in the next quarter and got in but soon got suspended after after a riot broke out after a basketball game but then a court order a few days later let them go back to the campus. -
albany movement
african amerrican wante to abolish segregation in shops, so they started boycotting the store that thrived on them buying and demaned that they started hiring them and they won't buy anything. -
march on washington
organized by andrew young, it was a march to Washington that consisted having martin Luther king jr. say his " I have a Dream" speech at lincoln memorial and they marched to show what they wanted. -
civil rights act
it ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination on basis of race, color, sex, or noational origin and was first proposed by JFK. -
voting rights act
A law sgined by lyndon johnson that outlawed discriminatory voting that was adopted in most southern states and including literacy tests as a condition to voting. -
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lester maddox
was a governeor and intagrated georgia state patrol named first black member in the patrol -
election of maynard jackson as mayor of atlant
first african american mayor in a major southern city served 3 terms and during that time he hired more african americans police officers. -
andrew young
civil rights actavist also got olympics to atlanta in 1996
